In the video filmed at night earlier this week, we see a long line of passengers outside Damascus airport.
Hundreds of young people, mostly Iraqi Kurds, originally from Dohuk and Zakho, according to the author of the video posted on Twitter, are preparing to take a Damascus-Minsk flight.
It is operated by Cham Wings Airlines, formerly owned by Rami Makhlouf, the first cousin of Bashar al-Assad, until his disgrace two years ago.
Cham Wings rose to prominence through flights to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and Benghazi in Libya, where Russian and Syrian mercenaries were dispatched.
In one month, around twenty Damascus-Minsk flights were recorded by the air navigation site Flightradar24, and the latest flights were sold out.
The existence of this link is not surprising: Belarus is one of Syria's allied countries, a proximity combining political convergences and financial interests.
Refractory damascus
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